Essential tools to carry; pole saw.
Funny how subjects get brought up but this was one I would like to address here in the NW...I was talking to someone who wanted to travel off road...a bit deeper into our forests with a TC....I asked ...
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JRscooby wrote:
At what point does it end. Your rig will not fit where you feel you have a right to go. So you cut a tree. If you are on your property, I have no issue. On my property? No! Public property? If you can use a power saw to move trees, what is my limit on smoothing the trail? A shovel? A pick? Blasting?
Obviously someone who has never been on public lands in the West.
87% of Nevada is owned by the Federal government and managed by either the Forest Service or BLM. There are thousand of miles of dirt roads running across those public lands...with one big problem - for the past 30+ years no money has ever been budgeted for maintaining those roads. So, if a road is washed out by a storm and you want to drive that road, it is up to you to make it passable. I carry a pick and a shovel for just that purpose. Some of those roads pass through groves of aspens, a very prolific tree. In just one year they can make a road impassable with the new branches they send over the roadway. Storms knock some of the trees over across the roadway. The Federal agency responsible is not about to send out a crew to prune trees or remove fallen ones. Pretty much everyone I know packs a chainsaw and if they come across a problem they take care of it.
